Maltese school wins European Flick the Switch Champion award

Paul Pace

May 30th 2010, 23:02

Some of the comments remind me of the two grumpy old men who used to feature in the Muppets' Show. Irrespective of what happened on stage they always managed to criticize it ... while they remained comfy comfy in their stall.
I had hoped that certain readers would appreciate that these kids are doing something tangible re the energy crisis rather than just being passive pessimists. Through our lifestyles and choices we've managed to muck up their future ... let us be decent enough to acknowledge their effort to resolve the mess they're inheriting.
To the schools who have participated in this and other similar projects: Well done! Keep up the good work.

EDWIN DE MARCO

May 26th 2010, 10:00

Actually there wasn't any need for the Maltese to participate in this "Flick the Switch" nonsense. We're always first to live in the dark. In fact, we've become so accustomed with powercuts that we don't have to flick the switch but Enemalta does it for us!

Marianna Galea Xuereb

May 25th 2010, 23:29

@ Paul Smith and @ amifsud

Totally agree with you.

amifsud

May 25th 2010, 19:51

And how much energy was used and CO2 emitted to gather representatives of these schools in Estonia?

Paul Smith

May 25th 2010, 18:57

Don't be fooled Maltese people, however grim my comments may apear, they are true.
it is not true that we are moving into the age of clean, renewable energy supplies. What is true is that we are moving into an age of not enough energy to support modern industrial civilization.

There are 10 K-calories of petroleum energy spent for every 1 K-calorie of food energy produced by modern agriculture. When that abundance of petroleum-based energy goes away, 90% of our food calories will go away. That's simple thermodynamics, and there's no way around it. And that means 90% of earth's population will starve.

We are not dancing cheerfully into happy Tomorrowland where the skies are blue and the birds are singing, we are sliding down a treacherous slope into Dante's Inferno where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Life on earth is going to be shear hell for a long time to come.

D. Scerri

May 25th 2010, 18:51

Well done to the school and in particular to Sr. Claudia Zammit, the Head of School for supporting such activities and pushing the name of the school forward. Well done also goes to all the staff and students. Keep it up.

J Mizzi

May 25th 2010, 17:57

How can we nominate Enemalta's own Boiler no. 7 for this award?

James Green

May 25th 2010, 17:25

Our road repairs/maintenance department should get this prize.
On second thoughts maybe a Nobel Prize would be more appropriate.
After all they are the biggest energy savers of them all.